Auction 333-341 Europe & Overseas Americas (North, Central & South America) - Day 1

1855: Second London Printing, Recess by Perkins Bacon, 5 c. red-brown, on blued paper, top corner marginal block of ten (5 x 2), unused, no gum, good to huge margins all round, ivory heads to reverse, printed in a pale red-brown with a degree of suffused colour, faults in the paper with tears, slits and cracks affecting top margin and top of stamp 2 and 3 and 7 to 9, some natural wrinkles contemporary with the production also, however stunning appearance, a rare and intriguing example Scott = $2'200 as singles.  Ex the Brian Moorhouse Estate.
Remark: A similar unused marginal block of twenty four, in the same shade and appearance was part of the Joseph Hackmey collection of  'Chile - The Colon Issues 1853-1867' and was thought to have come from a rejected sheet never sent to Chile and which may have been in Perkins Bacon's archive.